Before I even go on to my email and facebook today... I wanted to blog about stuff.
I have a rubber band on my wrist.  I put one on this morning and Bruce did also.
We have a tendency to allow our attitude to slip into the negative.
We've been reading different books out loud and talking about them.

One book is on boundaries and the other is about attitude.
It's hard to have a good attitude all the time.
Especially when the pool falls apart, and the car won't start.
So the rubber band is to pop when we find ourselves falling into the negative attitude ditch.
It's hard to climb out of that ditch.



Sunday was my birthday.  I had a flare starting that day but chose to work on the pool anyway.
It didn't work, the pool liner fell back in.  So yesterday was a full blown flare from being out in that
heat all day Sunday.  I was not smart.
On my birthday I got a gift from My cousin Mary
and a black bantam Wyandotte chick from a friend.
…………..
Now...you see...this is my own fault.
When you tell you husband you don't need anything for your birthday....
He will eventually listen.  Especially when it makes things very convenient for him.
I take responsibility for it.

Why do we do that?
Why do we feel so unworthy of special attention?
Ugh!!  I am my own worst enemy.

Time for a change. That's not gonna happen again.
As moms and wives who love their children and husbands, we want to make sure they
always know how much we adore them.  They get birthday weekends when they are little.
We put ourselves at the bottom of the list.
I can't do that anymore.  I have crushed my own spirit for long enough.
Time to put myself somewhere other than the bottom.

These are the things I learned with what we read today:

          Attitude, can be the difference maker.

          I can not always choose what happens to me
          But I can always choose what happens in me.

          Attitude is your greatest asset.

          Two men looked through prison bars
          One saw mud, one saw stars.

          Attitude can change your approach to life.

          Life often gives you whatever you expect from it.

          People possess a mindset of either lifting or limiting others.

In the last month I have made some major life changes.
I started a business, I've become energetic and healthier,
I've worked to catch up, organize, and improve.

The funny thing about my birthday this year is that it was so important to hear from my family.
I adore my family.  It's a broken family and my Dad doesn't really have much to do with his kids.
But I adore them all the same.  I have these beautiful memories I choose to pick out and think of.
There is messy stuff but I don't choose those.  I love to think of the precious things.
I was making my bed the other day and Remy our rescue gray and white boy cat kept running under the bubble of the sheet.  It made me think of the many many times Scott and I jumped under the bubble of the sheet while making the bed.  I don't choose to remember the moments after that.  I choose that moment.  The giggles and the fun of waiting for the sheet to sink around us.
Or making the bubble and jumping onto it.
As the bible says, "..whatever is lovely....think about these things." Phil 4:8

Today I have a lot to do.  I have to order some more supplements, because I didn't realize how much they were working until I stopped taking them.  and I need to catch up on work and chores.
I need to tend to the birds, catch up on laundry, organize the house so I can use at least one table top.
It's a mess here, but I'm getting caught up slowly.  It will be a good day.
I have only had to snap my rubberband once. so far.

So today...ask yourself....How is your attitude?



 Do you take the time to see the beauty in things?



 Do you think of the sweet memories you had with your family and ignore the rest?



Do you lift each other up or limit each other?

 Life is kinda like these quilts.  There are bits and pieces of the beautiful fabrics and the not so beautiful fabrics all sewn together to form our life.  As a whole...it makes a beautiful person if you have the right attitude.

Hugs Everyone.
Love Shannon








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